QUICK! Who said dis?!
Mar. 21st, 2008 12:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyburgFrom the deepest part of yourself,
let love be born for the rays of the One that shine around you...
Let this come from your whole heart-the center of your life:
your passion, courage, and audacity-
and touch your whole subconscious self-
that instinctive soul within which scatters and gathers.
From this self liberate your whole animal energy and life force
to flood your entire grasping mind with love.
This is the most important command - the first creative movement that empowers all others.
The second is like it: Draw a breath of compassion for the one mysteriously drawn to live near you: love that friend as you love the self that dwells within - the subconscious that sometimes feels separate and intruding.
**crickets**
Okay, okay - I'm playing with you. But it is appropriate for the season - see, some smart penny went back to the original Aramaic and redid of bunch of translations. Still need a hint?
Here. King James Version:
Matthew 22:35-39 (King James version)
"Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master which is the greatest commandment in the Law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."
If you're doing the translation work without being overly concerned about the socio-political affects, might you come up with much the same?
I love this kind of work - the KJV implies that this action is forced, somehow. That it's something that MUST come...forced, unlikely to occur at will.
When the truth might be something much different, and much more to my own experience.
As natural and normal as breathing and raising your face to the sunshine.
Yeah, I ordered the book. There's also another lovely one out there about Jesus in blue jeans that I'd recommend, too.
For extra credit: wonder how different things would have been had not so much emphasis on the ending of Christ's life been placed, instead of His life and teachings. Good Friday, indeed.
let love be born for the rays of the One that shine around you...
Let this come from your whole heart-the center of your life:
your passion, courage, and audacity-
and touch your whole subconscious self-
that instinctive soul within which scatters and gathers.
From this self liberate your whole animal energy and life force
to flood your entire grasping mind with love.
This is the most important command - the first creative movement that empowers all others.
The second is like it: Draw a breath of compassion for the one mysteriously drawn to live near you: love that friend as you love the self that dwells within - the subconscious that sometimes feels separate and intruding.
**crickets**
Okay, okay - I'm playing with you. But it is appropriate for the season - see, some smart penny went back to the original Aramaic and redid of bunch of translations. Still need a hint?
Here. King James Version:
Matthew 22:35-39 (King James version)
"Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master which is the greatest commandment in the Law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."
If you're doing the translation work without being overly concerned about the socio-political affects, might you come up with much the same?
I love this kind of work - the KJV implies that this action is forced, somehow. That it's something that MUST come...forced, unlikely to occur at will.
When the truth might be something much different, and much more to my own experience.
As natural and normal as breathing and raising your face to the sunshine.
Yeah, I ordered the book. There's also another lovely one out there about Jesus in blue jeans that I'd recommend, too.
For extra credit: wonder how different things would have been had not so much emphasis on the ending of Christ's life been placed, instead of His life and teachings. Good Friday, indeed.
